Editing Dean Acheson (section)

==Early life and education==
Dean Gooderham Acheson was born in [[Middletown, Connecticut]], on April 11, 1893. His father, [[Edward Campion Acheson]], was an English-born Canadian (immigrated to Canada in 1881) who became a [[Church of England]] priest after graduating from [[Wycliffe College]] and later became a bishop of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]]. He moved to the U.S., eventually becoming Bishop of Connecticut. His mother, Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham), was a Canadian-born descendant of [[William Gooderham, Sr.]] (1790–1881), a founder of the [[Gooderham and Worts Distillery]] of Toronto. Like his father, Acheson was a staunch Democrat and opponent of prohibition.

Acheson attended [[Groton School]] and [[Yale College]] (1912–1915), where he joined [[Scroll and Key]] Society, was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]],<ref>Brennan, Elizabeth A., Clarage, Elizabeth C.[https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA308 ''Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners''], Greenwood, 1999, p. 290</ref> and was a brother of the [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity (Phi chapter). At Groton and Yale he had the reputation of a partier and prankster; he was somewhat aloof but still popular with his classmates; his friends included [[Cole Porter]] and [[Archibald MacLeish]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1949-02-28 |title=THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,799822-3,00.html |access-date=2025-05-06 |work=Time |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Beisner |first=Robert L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9Zb_feBUdkC&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War |date=2009-03-06 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-975489-2 |language=en}}</ref> Acheson's well-known, reputed arrogance—he disdained the curriculum at Yale because it focused on memorizing subjects already known—was apparent early. At [[Harvard Law School]] from 1915 to 1918, however, he was swept away by the intellect of professor [[Felix Frankfurter]] and finished fifth in his class.<ref>David S. McClellan, ''Dean Acheson: The State Department Years'' (1976) pp 8–12</ref>